Wednesday, August 21, 2013

If you find yourself describing your recipes as "guilt-free," you probably have a bad relationship with food.

Food doesn't make you svelte. A "skinny" dish will not melt away the pounds. You have to eat; it's a requirement for being alive. But a healthy diet involves portion control as well as excellent ingredients. And if you convince yourself your food is guilt-free, you're just going to eat too much of it, and you will have overeaten.

It makes me sad that some people use the word "guilt" when describing what they eat. Food is not guilty for your flab; you are.

While i mostly agree with your premise, Sometimes the food is the problem. Processed foods are specifically designed to make one overeat, adding flavors that people are hard wired to crave. Good for you that you have strong self control.

Zoomie, yes! That's why, in my middle paragraph, I said we must use excellent ingredients. I'm not really sure if it's self control on my part, or if I just have a tiny appetite (which works to my advantage). But ultimately, it is the responsibility of the eater to eat responsibly. Some people like to eat until their tummies hurt, and... That's pleasurable?

Zooms, We weren't allowed to listen to our bodies back then. "Children are starving in China! Clean your plate!" (And, how did that feed the children?)But I always wanted to stop eating when I was sufficiently fed. Hell yes, I was forced to clean my plate. I always won, though, after sitting for a few hours in a darkened dining room.

Zooms, oh, gad. Totally power struggle! I bet she just thought she was following the rules of parenting, but that can be damaging. If my mom ever served my leftovers for breakfast, though, I probably would've eaten them. I didn't resist certain foods as a child, just didn't want to keep piling it in if I wasn't hungry.Oh, wait. I remember you saying your mom could really mangle some foods. Yeah, I might not have wanted to eat that. :)

I've been seeing this horrific trend amongst some of my friends on FB, where they're posting/saving these awful processed recipes their "walls". I don't think they realize those things are sponsored by major food cos. like Kraft. If you ever read through one of those things you'd be like... there's no food in that food!

Yay, Kris. Hi.Jeez, the horror of sponsored recipes! I hadn't actually thought of that. Anyway, it just shows that people don't know (or care) what they are putting in their mouths. And if they can convince themselves that it's "healthy," open wide!

Hey, Christian: First, I apologize for your comment on tarsiers disappearing. The whole post disappeared!(Did you ever call them magmaw? I been googlin'.)You have a sensibility about food (duh, personal chef) that I admire.Thanks, dude.

Who She?

I live a couple of miles from the Marin County Civic Center Farmers' Market, which feeds my little blogging hobby. Hell, it feeds me, too.
Formerly employed, I'm now a bum. Happy bum. Tomato ranchin' bum.
But I'm still mad.